The Republic of Ardakoth is a mid-sized, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its compulsory military service, state-planned economy, and stringent health and safety legislation. The compassionate, democratic population of 74 million Ardakothans are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The medium-sized, socially-minded government juggles the competing demands of Administration, Welfare, and Healthcare. The average income tax rate is 48.5%, but much higher for the wealthy.

The sizeable but inefficient Ardakothan economy, worth 3.97 trillion Ardakothan Florins a year, is driven entirely by a combination of government and state-owned industry, with private enterprise illegal. The industrial sector is led by the Book Publishing industry, with major contributions from Tourism, Retail, and Information Technology. Average income is 53,612 Ardakothan Florins, and distributed extremely evenly, with little difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Officials pull all-nighters to check immigrants for potential links to terrorists, the nation grinds to a halt for afternoon tea, explicit slash fiction is repackaged for kindergarten kids as stories about friends cuddling friends, and kindergartners' favourite dance move is the stop-drop-and-roll. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Ardakoth's national animal is the falcon, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Ardakoth is ranked 49,092^nd in the world and 811^th in The East Pacific for Most Cultured, scoring 72 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.